Quote

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

Eric Maisel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
Playwright
Psychologist
Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Take
Patience
Long
Patient
Time
Response
World
Wait
Create
Waiting
Often
Responses
Also
Idle

More quotes by Eric Maisel

Image
Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
Eric Maisel
Image
It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.
Eric Maisel
Image
An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
Eric Maisel
Image
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
Eric Maisel
Image
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
Eric Maisel
Image
When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
Eric Maisel
Image
The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly.
Eric Maisel
Image
Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
Eric Maisel
Image
If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.
Eric Maisel
Image
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.
Eric Maisel
Image
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
Eric Maisel
Image
While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.
Eric Maisel
Image
The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.
Eric Maisel
Image
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
Eric Maisel
Image
Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
Eric Maisel
Image
It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
Eric Maisel
Image
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
Eric Maisel
Image
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
Eric Maisel
Image
When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
Eric Maisel
Image
By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.
Eric Maisel